Android Programming Tutorials

Raising (Something Like) a Tweet

If you have such an account and do not mind using it for creating a Patchy

application, feel free to stick with it. Otherwise, create an identi.ca account

that you can use for your experimentation. Visit the identi.ca Web site and

sign up. Note that identi.ca will send a confirmation email to you, and you

must click the link on that email in order to be able to work with the REST

API.

Step #2: Create a Stub Application and Activity..............................

Using Eclipse or android create project, make a project named Patchy with

a stub activity named apt.tutorial.two.Patchy. The generated activity class

should resemble the following:

package apt.tutorial.two;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

public class Patchy extends Activity

{

/** Called when the activity is first created. */

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

{

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

}

}

Step #3: Create a Layout.....................................................................

Next, we need a layout for use with the Patchy activity. At the outset, we

want:

• A field for your identi.ca user name


• A field for your identi.ca password, needed to use much of the

identi.ca REST API

• A multi-line field for a status update you want to publish


• A Send button that will send the status update

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